CHAPTER ELEVEN

JEWISH LINKS AND CHRISTIAN AID

Every nation has natural dislike to something and for what
the Zionist Jews have done to the Palestinians; the Muslim nation's hatred
for the Jews surpasses
its hatred for everything else. Hence, Abdul Hafeez cites several news items
from journals of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's opponents, the Majlis Khatme
Nubuwwat, to allege that it has links with the Zionist state of Israel. He
also alleges that the Ahmadiyya Muslim centre at Islamabad in Tilford is playing
host to 85 Jewish intellectuals and that with the patronage of the Zionist
state; Ahmadi Muslims are publishing literature in Arabic with the view to
distribution in the Arabic speaking world. Incidentally, this literature, according
to the joint author of Two in One, Dr. Rashid Ali, is being printed
with the latest printing press supposedly donated in 1985 by the Jewish chairman
of
New York's Fifth Avenue business community on Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad'sra
birthday.1

One must admit that while one's temper has often flared at reading
the obnoxious and vulgar allegations made against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
by the author
of Two in One, Abdul Hafeez, his co author, Dr. S. Rashid Ali's aforementioned
charges in the concluding pages of the book have afforded one with a touch
of humor. One must also admit that while nominal Ahmadi Muslims have somewhat
been distressed at the filth the author of Two in One has included
in his publication, these concluding comments by his co author has convinced
them that the publishers
of this grotesque book are personified liars. One would therefore not dwell
upon this question at
length but to caution Abdul Hafeez and Dr. S. Rashid Ali that the Holy Quran
requires of Muslims:

'Follow not that of'which thou hast no knowledge. Verily, the ear and the
eye and the heart - all these shall be called to account.2

If, by any chance, Dr. S. Rashid Ali has been led to believe
in these charges of a Jewish link by the false reports contained in the Khatme
Nubuwwat Magazine,
and provided he is a Muslim who does not treat the admonitions contained
in the Holy Quran with indifference, one would suggest that he take heed
of the
above verse in the Holy Quran and investigate the matter first since the
Holy Quran also admonishes that one 'shun all words of falsehood'3 and
warns:

'He utters not a word, but there is by him an alert watcher who takes care
to preserve it.'4

At this stage, it may be appropriate to quote a Hadeeth attributed
to Hadhrat Muhammad in
which he stated:

'It is enough to make a man a liar that he should go on repeating all that
he might hear.5

One ought to also warn the publishers of Two in One that
according to Hadhrat Muhammad,
one who carries tales will not enter paradise6 and
these
allegations of the Jewish link are certainly false tales, no less than
others already discussed, which Dr. S. Rashid Ali and Abdul Hafeez are carrying
through
their publication, Two in One.

However, one is rather amazed at Dr. S. Rashid Ali's audacity
in accusing the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of these false charges of a Jewish
link after
the conduct of the leadership of the entire Muslim world, with the exception
of one or two countries, during the Gulf War. One is certain that further
comment on this issue would not be necessary but one cannot refrain from
stating that
while the leadership of nearly the entire Muslim world was collaborating
with the Zionists in breaking the back of Iraq, the leader of the Ahmadiyya
Muslim
Community, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmadra was delivering Sermons
from the pulpit of the London Mosque condemning the actions of this unholy
alliance. These
Sermons, delivered between 3rd August, 1990 and 15th March, 1991 have
been compiled in book form titled The Gulf Crisis7 and
a study of it should conclusively settle the issue as to who has been
collaborating with the Zionists.

As regards Dr. S. Rashid Ali's allegation that according to
the
Al Khaleej, an Arabic newspaper, the Christian missionaries
have fixed a sum of $35 million
to spread the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith and this money has been spent by
them in spreading the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's literature in Ethiopia8,
would the editor of Al Khaleej or Dr. S. Rashid Ali explain
as to why should Christian
missionaries spend all this money to spread a faith which claims to be
Islamic in a predominantly Christian country where the reigns of power
are held by
the Amarah people who are all Christians?

As regards the allegation that Christian
missionaries have printed new versions of Hadhrat Ahmad's books and have
started distributing these in Ghana and
that these books have now invaded bookshops in Accra9, one is rather amazed
that these Christians should come to the aid of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
at this late stage while the mission in Ghana was established as far back
as 1921 and the name Ahmadiyya is currently synonymous to Islam in this country.